Railway passenger-car



(No Model.)

J. KREHBIBL.

. RAILWAY PASSENGER GAR.

No. 526,156. Patented Septr18, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KREHBIEL, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

RAILWAY PASSENG ER-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 526,156, dated September 18, 1894.

Application filed geptemher 19, 1899 gerial No. 485,771. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN KREHBIEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Passenger-Oars, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the car seats, movably connected to the floor, so that they may be arranged either with a central aisle between the groups of seats on eachside of the car or may be shifted to forma side aisle, together with curtains and supports therefor for dividing the car into pompartments in either position of theseat The invention further consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the various parts.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a railway car platform, showing in diagram gliflerent arrangements of the seats. Fig. 2 is a cross section through the car, showing the curtain hanging arch in elevation, partly in sectio. Fig! 3 is a cross section through the)" re esents the car platform. r/ 7&0 "3t 0 side walls. 1

vestibule D. and E are doors, (preferably sliding doors) in this partition for closing off the yestibule from the rest of the car.

flare-car seats arranged in pairspfacing ch ot or as in the ordinary sleeping car 11st; otion. These seats are arranged with amraisle between the side pairs, as shown at G; ,in Fig. 1, this being the usual arrangement 4c of such seats in cars now in use. These seats /I secure to the floor by any suitable adj ust- ".Patent No. 498,013, of May 23, 1893, the means r being such that the, seat may be secured in its adjusted position within its limited range of movement. Between each group of seats extending across the car is the arch H, the

"/ O are end partitions dividing off the en able means, such for instance, as shown in my under face of the top of which is recessed and provided with a concealed rail 1, over which the hooks J of curtains K engage, these curtains being of such a width that they maybe drawn to inclose the passage way across the car, or drawn to either side.

L are longitudinal bars or rods extending just outside the ends of the seats in their normal position and adapted to receive hooks M at the upper end of curtains N.

O are rails or bars extending longitudinally of the car and upon which the curtains N are adapted to be hung to form a side aisle P when the seats upon OIIQSIdB of the car are moved to the other side to form a group of four, as shown at Q in Fig. 1. In this position of the seats the transverse curtains K and the longitudinal curtains N hung upon the rails 0 will form a series of compartments divided from each other containing a group of four seats and leaving a passage on the side. In this way the car may be divided up into state rooms as private as may be desired without in any way disturbing the arrange ment of the seatsin the usual way or for sleeping purposes.

What I claim as my invention is- Ina railway car, the combination with a series of removable seats, of transverse ourtain supports extending entirely across the car, curtains removably supported on opposite ends of the supports and adapted to be placed edge to edge, and a longitudinal curtaih support arranged at one side of the center of the car at a distance from one side of the car equal to the combined width of the two transverse, curtains, a curtain on the longitudinal support, and a longitudinal ourtain support between the center of the car and the said other longitudinal support substantially as described. 1

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 

